The F-Zero 99 soundtrack has joined Nintendo Music for Nintendo Switch Online members, adding 44 listed tracks, several event themes, and retro remixes, though reports differ on runtime and immediate availability.
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F-Zero 99 hits Nintendo Music, but the listings are not perfectly aligned
Nintendo has added the F-Zero 99 soundtrack to Nintendo Music, giving Nintendo Switch Online subscribers access to the Switch battle royale racer’s music through the company’s music service. Nintendo Life reports that the album contains 44 tracks, while My Nintendo News also says 44 total tracks have been added from F-Zero 99, the 2023 Switch Online release.
The immediate wrinkle is that the public reporting around the update does not fully agree on two details. Nintendo Everything’s running Nintendo Music list places F-Zero 99 on the service on July 9, 2026, while Nintendo Life and My Nintendo News published the update on July 10. That may reflect regional timing or publication timing, but the provided sources do not explain the difference. There is also a runtime conflict: Nintendo Life lists the album at 1 hour and 14 minutes, while My Nintendo News says the update includes 1 hour and 44 minutes of music.
A separate Shacknews report adds another availability caveat. Shacknews cites Nintendo of America’s social post as referring to 44 songs, but says only 27 tracks were playable at the time its article was published. According to Shacknews, the missing pieces were Special Event themes such as Festival, Meteor, and Winter event music, while the mashup Special Tracks were present. Taken together, the safest reading is that F-Zero 99 is now represented on Nintendo Music with a 44-track listing, but listeners may want to check the app or web player directly if they are looking for a specific event track.
The core race music covers the SNES circuit spine
The heart of the F-Zero 99 OST on Nintendo Music is built around the recognizable course themes that tie the Switch Online racer back to the original F-Zero lineage. Nintendo Life’s track list names Opening Theme, Mute City, Big Blue, Sand Ocean, Death Wind, Silence, Port Town, Red Canyon, White Land I, White Land II, and Fire Field among the included songs.
For racing players, that selection is the practical draw. F-Zero 99 is a modern competitive format wrapped around the handling vocabulary, track identity, and musical language of the SNES game. Mute City and Big Blue remain the obvious headline themes, but the inclusion of Sand Ocean, Death Wind, Silence, Port Town, Red Canyon, both White Land tracks, and Fire Field gives the album the full course-to-course texture that players associate with the 99-player flow.
My Nintendo News describes the soundtrack as an upbeat retro set featuring remixes of tracks from the SNES classic. That matters for how the album sits inside Nintendo Music’s catalog. It is not being added as a detached modern Switch soundtrack alone. It lands as a bridge between Nintendo’s original 16-bit racing identity and the Switch Online-era revival that reworked F-Zero as a live competitive release.
Menus, results, Grand Prix, and bumper themes fill out the race-day package
Beyond the course themes, the Nintendo Life listing shows that Nintendo Music F-Zero 99 coverage includes the connective tissue players hear between heats. The album lists Finish - Top 3, Finish, Results, You Lost, Lucky Bumper Theme, Lucky Bumper Ending, Select Time, and Team Battle Complete.
Those shorter tracks are easy to overlook in a casual F-Zero 99 soundtrack scan, but they are part of how the game sells pressure. F-Zero 99 is a battle royale racer, as Nintendo Life identifies it, so its sound design has to communicate elimination, survival, podium placement, and quick re-entry without slowing the pace. A results cue or lost-state sting has a different job than a lap theme. It marks the end of a run, then resets the player for the next launch.
The Grand Prix material is also included in the reported 44-track set. Nintendo Life lists Opening Theme - Grand Prix, End of Final Race - Grand Prix, Ending Theme, Top 3 - Grand Prix, and Elite Rank Promotion. Those tracks speak to the game’s tournament structure, where a player’s rhythm is not limited to a single track. From a racing perspective, the Grand Prix cues are the soundtrack equivalent of parc fermé and podium ceremony material: they frame progression, pressure, and rank rather than moment-to-moment cornering.
The update includes remix and event material, with availability questions around some specials
The most interesting part of the F-Zero 99 Nintendo Music update is the stretch of tracks that goes beyond the standard circuit list. Nintendo Life’s list includes five mystery-labeled remixes: ??? - Mute City Remix, ??? - Big Blue Remix, ??? - Sand Ocean Remix, ??? - Death Wind Remix, and ??? - Silence Remix. Shacknews separately reports that the mashup Special Tracks were available when it checked the service, even though some Special Event themes were not playable at that time.
Nintendo Life’s full 44-track list also includes Opening Theme - Submenu and Credits, then several event blocks: Opening Theme - Frozen World Tour, Results - Frozen World Tour, End of Final Race - Frozen World Tour, and Top 3 - Frozen World Tour. Mini World Tour is represented by Opening Theme - Mini World Tour, Results - Mini World Tour, and Top 3 - Mini World Tour. Meteor Grand Prix has Opening Theme - Meteor Grand Prix, Results - Meteor Grand Prix, and Top 3 - Meteor Grand Prix. Festival World Tour closes the list with Opening Theme - Festival World Tour, Results - Festival World Tour, and Top 3 - Festival World Tour.
This is where listeners should separate the confirmed listing from reported playback. Nintendo Life and My Nintendo News both point to a 44-track update. Shacknews says only 27 tracks were playable at publication and specifically calls out Special Event themes as notable absences. Until Nintendo’s own app presentation is checked by each listener, the responsible guidance is to treat those event tracks as part of the reported album package while recognizing that early availability may have been uneven.
A timely perk for Switch Online subscribers tracking Nintendo’s retro racers
The timing is strong for Nintendo Switch Online subscribers because F-Zero 99 and Nintendo Music sit inside the same subscription orbit. My Nintendo News states that both F-Zero 99 and Nintendo Music are free benefits for Nintendo Switch Online members. Nintendo Insider describes Nintendo Music as exclusive to Nintendo Switch Online subscribers, with tracks available to stream in the smart device app or download within the app for offline listening.
That makes the F-Zero 99 soundtrack a clean subscription perk rather than a separate soundtrack purchase, based on the provided source material. If you already pay for Nintendo Switch Online to play F-Zero 99, the music service now gives you a way to carry the F-Zero 99 OST outside the race client. My Nintendo News also notes that Nintendo Music recently received a major iOS and Android update alongside a dedicated website for listening in a web browser, giving subscribers more ways to access the catalog.
The retro racing angle is especially clear because Nintendo Life says the app already includes the SNES and N64 F-Zero soundtracks. With F-Zero 99 joining those albums, Nintendo Music now has a more coherent F-Zero lane: the original foundation, the Nintendo 64 entry, and the Switch Online reinterpretation. Nintendo Everything’s running list also shows that Nintendo Music has been receiving regular additions, with the outlet noting that Nintendo indicated more music is coming and that at least one new title appears to be arriving each week.
The F-Zero catalog is growing on music, even as game questions remain open
F-Zero 99 was announced during a September Nintendo Direct as a surprise release, according to the F-Zero Wiki at Mute City. Its placement on Nintendo Music keeps that revival visible nearly three years after its 2023 debut, but the sources do not support any claim that Nintendo is preparing a new F-Zero game. Some reader comments attached to Nintendo Life and My Nintendo News speculate about future F-Zero activity or missing soundtracks, but those are community reactions rather than announcements.
What is confirmed is narrower and still useful: Nintendo Music now lists F-Zero 99 alongside existing F-Zero albums, and the reported update includes course music, results cues, Grand Prix material, remixes, credits, and multiple event theme sets. For a series where music and course identity are tightly linked, that is a meaningful preservation step within Nintendo’s own subscription ecosystem.
For players deciding whether to open the app, the practical advice is simple. If you subscribe to Nintendo Switch Online and use Nintendo Music, search for F-Zero 99 in the app or on Nintendo’s music website and verify the track count against what you want to hear. If you mainly want Mute City, Big Blue, the standard course themes, or the remix material, the reports indicate those are central to the update. If you are hunting the Frozen World Tour, Meteor Grand Prix, or Festival World Tour tracks, Shacknews’ early report of only 27 playable tracks means it is worth checking availability before assuming every listed special theme is live in your region or account.